Unit 4 APES Vocab

4. inertial or fictitious force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame. (the same as earths rotation with its hemispheres.)
6. Second highest layer of the atmosphere, has auoraborielas and a few satelites.
8. At higher latitudes, air rises and travels toward the poles
9. Where meteors burn up, in the middle of all the atmospheric layers.
10. a region having little rainfall because it is sheltered from prevailing rain-bearing winds by a range of hills.
12. The rock or minerals from which the soil derives
13. trade winds strengthen, very cold water is left in the east.
15. trade winds weaken. Warm water is pushed back east, toward the west coast of the Americas.
16. Air flows poleward and eastward near the surface and equatorward and westward at higher altitudes
17. Where Felix Baumgartner jumped, second lowest layer of the atmostphere.
18. Parallel layers of soil whose physical, chemical and biological characteristics differ from the layers above and beneath

1. Lowest part of the atmosphere, peak of mount everest, the highest passenger planes can fly. Height of 10KM
2. Highest layer of the atmosphere, only has space stations
3. these all go into a group, Sand, Silt, Clay, and Loam.
5. ocean circulation which is driven by fluxes of heat and freshwater across the sea surface
7. The layer of the earth that protects all life from harmful sun rays and radiation
11. low-latitude overturning circulations that have air rising at the equator and air sinking at roughly 30° latitude
14. a vertical section of the soil that depicts all of its horizons